Ted Turner creator and former owner of the CNN news network has been a staunch public advocate of population reduction ever since Audubon Magazine published an interview they conducted with him in the early 90s. Although Turner stated within the Audubon column that he would like to see 90% world population reduction, he has since been confronted and has resigned his estimations to approximately 66% world population reduction. Turner's belief in such a program of mass culling stems from his Malthusian beliefs that human beings and not systemic inadequacies of technological and distributive shortcomings as the root of environmental and social discords.